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3-17-2020

Investigating the Relationships Among Athlete Leader Behaviors,

Athlete Leader Fairness, Cohesion, and Athlete Satisfaction
Katherine E. Hirsch
University of Windsor, hirschk@uwindsor.ca

Todd M. Loughead
University of Windsor, loughead@uwindsor.ca

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 The purpose of the study was to examine athlete leader fairness in relation to athlete leadership

behaviors, cohesion, and athlete satisfaction. Participants were 203 intercollegiate team sport

athletes. Participants completed the Leadership Scale for Sports (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980),

Differentiated Transformational Leadership Inventory (Callow, Smith, Hardy, Arthur, & Hardy,

2009), Group Environment Questionnaire (Carron, Widmeyer, & Brawley, 1985), Athlete

Satisfaction Questionnaire (Riemer & Chelladurai, 1998), and a leader fairness inventory

(Colquitt, 2001). Task-oriented, transformational, and transactional athlete leadership behaviors

were positively associated with perceptions of athlete leader procedural and distributive fairness.

In turn, these perceptions of fairness were positively associated with task cohesion and

satisfaction with performance and the team. Findings from the present study provide support for

athlete leaders as a source of leader fairness perceptions in team sport. Additionally, perceptions

of athlete leader fairness are identified as an antecedent of cohesion and athlete satisfaction.